the room. It had a ouija board in the middle with candles and symbols forming a slightly smaller circle inside.“ The air smelled of burnt herbs and salt” was written in her book. There was a small bowl with jars of lavender, lemongrass and crushed up salt.“ You could feel the spiritual energy in the room it was strong.” They wrote. Journey saw crystals lined up with cards in front of them and a bucket in the corner with a burnt inside. I was mesmerized by the description of the room, how the situation felt. Then my mother came barging in.“ What are you doing?” She said with a loud ear-splitting tone. I stuttered trying to figure out my wording. She took the book from my hands. She scoffed it off then replied,“ What are you reading?” She dropped the book in disgust,“ this thing is filthy”.“ Oh, it’ s a book about a ghost hunting group.” I reassured her in a soft but firm voice.“ Okay but get to bed it already ten” she demanded and left the room slamming the door behind her. I jumped at the doors sound, then I closed the book, set it back on my desk and went to bed like she asked because I knew that she would be back in five minutes to see if I obeyed her.
October 29 th, 2023
I sat up in bed as a shiver went down my spine. Something felt off about this day. I sat for a moment thinking about what I had learned about this book. My name matched the owners, and the house was here in Enfield. I thought about asking Mom, but she wouldn’ t help. I went on my day as usual thinking about what I could do to decode this mystery. I got to school and ran over to Iris.“ Iris, I have a question for you.” I told her through my breathless voice.“ Yeah, what is it?” She responded.“ Do you know where the school computers are?” I asked.“ Yeah, they ' re in the library I can take you if you want.” She answered.“ That would be great let ' s go.” I spoke to her. I thought about how she followed what I said to her with no extra question, like she had trust in me. I’ ve spent only a week with her, but I made my choice I would risk it and tell her about the book. It was difficult to I never told anyone else about it not even my sister. I took a breath and finally said it“ I... I found a mysterious book in my attic and the person who wrote it had the same name as me first and last.”.“ Yeah, so why do you need the computer for that?” She asked me with a head tilt in confusion.“ I’ m going to search her up and the date the book was written and see if I’ m related at all.”. I told her. I sounded like a crazy person, but I hoped she would understand and help.“ Okay cool I can help you out.” She replied. I was shocked. Iris actually believed me and trusted me. I’ ve never had that with anyone other than Sage before. I was called“ crazy”, and“ stupid” people said my thoughts were conspiracy theories, but not Iris. I found Journey Ocean; she was part of a group of spirit chasers. They would come to peoples houses and investigate the paranormal activity. I looked at who her kids were. My grandmother, her only child, no spouse either. Me and Iris shared the same look of shock and excitement.“ Your great grandmother was a spirit hunter, that crazy!” she screamed.“ Shh no one can know, we need to keep this secret until I get to the bottom of this.” I demanded.“ Okay I’ m good with that.” She responded to me again with no other questions. I got home did my chores and homework as normal than hurried upstairs to find the truth.
October 30 th, 2023
I found out the truth about this ghost story. My great grandmother came to this house, my house to investigate as the owner described“ a terrifying place”. They came to the basement and found a séance room and were about to uncover a history long since forgotten, well that’ s what they were told. All of them died before they could see it. I immediately knew what to do, I would solve this mystery. I called the person I trusted most, Iris. I yelled in excitement“ GET OVER HERE NOW WERE GONNA BE FAMOUS!”. All I heard back was an“ okay” then I waited. * Beep * the doorbell rang.” Iris came upstairs“ I figured it all out.” I told her. We ran up the stairs to my room and slammed the door behind us.“ Okay this might sound insane but here’ s what happened.”. I told her every little detail and the response I got was what I never expected.“ Did you say the main person of group was Alexander Whitlock?” She asked hesitantly.“ Yes, I did …... wait” then at the same time we said.“ Great grandfather”. Alexander Whitlock was Iris’ s great grandfather. Then she said to me“ were finishing their work together. No one else just us.”. She knew exactly what I was thinking. We nodded at each other then planed our ghost hunt. Tomorrow night after school she would come over while my mom took the terror twins trick-or-treating, we would find out the absolute truth.